'This is the sort of chap you shy away from in the pub, before he goes on to explain that the meaning of life can be understood in terms of the dimensions of the Great Pyramid,' writes Geoffrey Wheatcroft
, to inherit the throne directly, a man of 40 rather than his father, who is now at the age when most men think of retirement rather than a big new job. Polls not long ago showed that 42 percent of British people agreed with me, more than those who wanted Charles to be king.
His role all those years hasn’t been easy. English history is littered with dubious Princes of Wales, whose relationship with their parents were difficult. In the 1750s, there was even a Prince of Wales’s Party, an opposition faction grouped around Frederick, the eldest son of King George II. As it happened, he predeceased his father, who was succeeded by his grandson as King George III, remembered by history as the king who lost the American colonies.
Nothing our new king has done has been as reprehensible as that. Some of the derision heaped on Charles over the years has been spiteful and undeserved, since no one can possibly say that he’s a nasty man. People who know him at all well, from his fishing companions to his former girlfriends, often speak fondly of him. But he’s a crank, he has shown very bad judgment on occasion, and he’s famously sorry for himself, believing that he was hard done by his father, Prince Philip.
, and a letter he wrote to supporters of an architectural foundation he heads. It read in part that “there is a DIVINE Source which is ultimate TRUTH … that Truth was understood, explained and interpreted by the wisest of those who have passed through this world before us … this Truth can be expressed by means of numbers … if followed correctly, these principles can be expressed with infinite variety to produce Beauty … its manifestation is a reflection of the order of the Cosmos.
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